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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1936.

ATTEMPTS TO GATE-CRASH QUEEN MARY

"Yard" Men Safeguard the Liner on Sailing Day

-Unfinished-

Pyramid

FOUNDATIONS of a giant

pyramid stand high on a spur of the Ozark Mountains, North Arkansas,

It was begun in 1931. I was to have tlxen 130ft. high. Inside were to have been placed models and recorda telling of the rise and fall of this civiliantion.

But the pyramid will prob ably never be completed. For, this month, ita creator, Mr. William Hope ("Coin") Har- vey, advocate of free allver for the United States, died in Monto Ne, Arkansas.

MODERN ALLADINS RUB THEIR LAMPS

St. Louis, Mo., Mar. 15. Out of the 79th annual conven- tion of the American Association for Advancement of Science came a picture of what happens when

rub modern Aladdins

magic

lampa.

Hundreds of discoveries were divulged, demonstrated, and described to 3,000 delegates at- tending some score of meetings. A cross section includes:

Radio broadcasting of a facsimile of a San Francisco 'newspaper to

of

the General Electric Co., Schenectady, fresh from the press, before it was on the street in San

Francisco.

Imminent smashing of atoms by torrific electrical voltage, which, when directed into a pile of plain table salt, will result in rendering it "radio active," supplanting internal costly radium, fit for medicinal use.

Popping of corn in a common water glass by means of hisch frequency radio waves which do not heat the glass but merely react on the moisture in the corn.; Physicians are studying this with a view to artificial production of fevers for combating certain types of diseases which yield to such treatment

Conversion of light into sound.

of and vice versa, by means photo-electric tube, in which light

LOOK-OUT FOR SPIES

CLYDE WORKERS KEEP SECRETS

Glasgow, Mar, 24.

Picked mon from the special branch at Scotland Yard werd brought here to safeguard the linor Queen Mary when she sailed on her maiden voyage to-day.

These men co-operated with the police forces of Glasgow, |Dumbartonshire, and Renfrewshire in protecting the vessel from

"gate-crashers."

They were chosen from men with the widest experience of Continental crooks, and were specially on the look-out for spies sent over to learn the secrets of the Queen Mary's construction and engineering details.

The 5,000 men and women who were engaged in the line worked in conditions of the strictest secrecy. The vessel is still, in fact, best-guarded structure in Britain.

Two men who disguised themselves as workmen got past the fouter guard, but when they arrived at the section where they said they were working they were detected instantly, and were marched out of the yard.

FISHING?

As many other great politicians,

The former governar in New York!

Every clas for the past month the guards have turned away scores of people who took the train from Glasgow to Clyde- bank in the hope of making a touri of the ship-by permission or otherwise.

Plans For Big Day Every plan for the bix day turned out perfect.

It is a sad reflection that the Clyde's biggest day, how. ever, has increased the num- ber of unemployed on Clyde- bank, and in the district by several thousands.

This week, for instance, a thousand carpenters and ather employees have been pate! off. their work complished.

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There will still be a great deal

of work to be done at Southamp- ton, however, as the Queen Mary has not boett decorated furuished completely Clyde. In order to minimise dam- age risks,

£5 Bids Refused

011

and the

Every yard below John Brown's

and presidentin candidate Alfred was inundated with applications Smith, gives preference to fishing as for tickets leisure occupation. The picture Mary leave. above shows Al with his fishing-ro

and cigar.

affects the flow of current, which War Baby

when amplified and shot 'into a luud speaker, gives noise. By re-i versing the process, acarui De- comes light.

MOTORS THAT RUN _ON_CABBAGE OIL

Dr. Karl T. Compton, Cam- bridge, Mass, president of the AAAS, predicted The day when starch from vegetables would be converted into industrial alcohol, which, when mixed with gas, will create a satisfactory motor fuel.

Willie Ray Gregg, hend of the U.S. Weather bureau, told of the Radio metoonograph, which attach- ed to balloons, provides instan- taneous recording of upper air conditions by radio.

Treatment of severe cases of sthma by uso of a lung evacua- tion drug, combined with forcing the patient to knoel on a chair place both hands on the floor, and cough.

Relief of chronic sufferers from of heart disease by inhalation trichlorethylene, chloroform- like drug, instantaneously effica cious.

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Study of the brain by wiring it electrically. Tests on a 59 year old farmer indicated the brain is made up of centres which control reparato activities of the body.

Edward L. Thorndike, of Columbia University, addressing the meeting said "man can be made to improve his desires; can be taught to find satisfaction in usefull work, healthful and noble| recreation and the welfare of others."—United Press.

b 50% the Queen

Bids of as much as £5 have been received and turned down.

Farmers on the Renfrewshire banks of the Clyde, however. sold hundreds of grandstand seats. at prices ranging from 78. 6d, to

Hero Talks Of three nines Soldier's Duty

Aldershot, Mar.15.-

THE first war-baby to

bet

awarded the Military Medalį -he celebrated his twenty-first | birthday a few months ago-is)

a modest young man.

Gunner Ernest Albert Thomas, of the 3rd Light Battery Royal Artillery, won the Medal for con- spicuous gallantry on the North- West Frontier.

He is now at Aldershot on sick | leave, his right arm, in which ho was shot, an inch shorter than the left.

"MY ORDERS"

But almost all he would say was: "I was given my orders, and I have always been taught that a soldier's first duty. is to obey orders."

Official documents tell that dur

the Mohmand operations, ing when Indian tribesmen ambushed the British forces, Gunner Thomas advanced under heavy enemy fre laying wire.

He went on, after he had been wounded, until he was ordered to withdraw.

"It was the bravery of Lieuten- ant J. N. D. Tyler, who received the M.C., that inspired us," said Gunner Thomas. He would say no more about himself,

A VICTORIA FALLS QUERY

Durban, Mar.. 12.

DOUBT as to whether Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls is expressed by the curator of the falla, Mr. J. J. Reynard, in a letter to the chief archivist of the Vatican Library in Rome.

A wmoan lecturer in Pretoria, centuries ago. Mrs. E C.. Louw, is reported to "My friend. Father D. King, of have said: "At the Vatican,- re- Farmstreet, London, las minde search in the great library re- diligent investigations into the vealed Interesting information. early history of the Zambes!, but Marked on early explorers' mape his offerts have not been successful. were the Victoria Falls. These “Valuable records were destroy- were dated hundreds of years be-led when the Lisbon Library Tell a fore the discovery by Livingstone, victim to the devastating fire that In his letter to the Vatican, ask caused immens damage to the ing for information. the curator) citv. The library contained pre- науа:

clous documents in connection "I havo `adwaya' held that the with the Portuguese settlements Portuguese Jeaults must have in this portion of the African Con- penetrated into the hinterland of tinent Zambeship the Cuanza River: (the' Zambeel... “Any data, you could send me, was known as the Cuame in the also a copy of the map Indicating early Portuguese period), along the great falis, would be of world- whose banks they settled over four, wido interest." Central News

It is estimated that the journey from the river to the Rea was watched by at least 500,000 peu- ple,

ENGLAND'S “DIONNES" GAIN WEIGHT

England takes almost as much interest in the Miles "Quads" as Canada loes in the Dionne Quints. Thousands were overjoyed to learn that four tots and more than doubled their weight since birth, inst November. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miles, UPPER LEFT is Ernest, who weighed 3 1. 15 oz. at birth and now weighs 8 lbs. 2 oz. UPPER RIGHT is Ann, the only girl, who sealed 3 h. 12 oz. at birth and now weighs 7 lbs. 15% oz, LOWER LEFT is Paul, who weighed 3 lbs. 7 oz., and now weighs 7 lbs. 10 nz. Michael (LOWER RIGHT), has increased his weight of 2 lbs. 13 oz, to lbs. 9 uz,

Wanted-Air Pilot Wanted:

-Without-

Old School-Tie

A

NEW kind of air pilot, proficient at shorthand, typing and accountancy, is advertised for the current isstie of The Aeroplane.

He must have had not less: than 2,000 hours, solo experi. ence and be certificated command an air ner.

The advertisement adds:

to

A Tank Trumpet Call

"STABLES"

CAN'T BE

"It is hoped the applicant PLAYED TO

will have cat the eye teeth and finished with play have temperate habits. No school-Ble wearer or rich man's son need apply."

Preference is for a son of. poor parents who wants a: opportunity.

ROBOT PILOTS

CONVICTS WANTED

A JOY RIDE

Joliet, Ill., Mar. 10.

Gates of Stateville Prison wwung open today for a truck to leave-then clanged

FOR BRITISH BOMBERS

thut as guards discovered six AS A RESULT OF INTENSIVE

trusties sitting on a bobsled roped to the rear axle.

The convlets were hustled off to solitary confinement, insisting they built the led for recreation and merely intended to coast behind the truck as far as the gate. The rope became tangled and they were unable to stop, they said.

more

There will be ካነበ "coasting" at Jollet.--United Press.

ASSASSINATION

SUSPECT

GARAGES

THE approaching

mechanisation of the Cavalry Brigade at Alder- shot has struck Romance a foul blow under the ear with ļa spanner.

The blow is especially foul because it involves the car with which Romance listened to "Stubles"-that lilting trumpet call which roused troopers and horses alike to the main business. of the day.

"Stables." No Romance. But,

No horses-no SECRET WORK, BRITAIN "Stables"-no NOW LEADS THE WORLD stay, there will be stables of a OF Bort for the mechanised mounts, IN THE DEVELOPMENT MECHANICAL PILOTS FOR and the mechanic-trooper must be summoned somehow to fill up the PLANES.

tank and polish the countless gad- These robots will have far-gets of his steed. reaching effects on the strength

of Britain's air force.

"INTO THE SUMP"

So the trumpeters are still look- Air Ministry experts in their ing forward to sounding the same laboratories, and private experi call, but with different words at menters in their workshops, have tached. The old Stables" lilted |been labouring to perfect pieces like this ---

of apparatus so Ingenious, 80 sensitive, that in the form they have now reached they virtually mechanical brains.

are

Giant bombers, speeding at high attitude throughout the

night, can be controlled entire- ly by these mechanical pilots,

"All you who are able, should come to the stable and water your horses and give them some! corn. If you don't do it, the major will know it, then you will be for the office the very next morn,

Those words are obviously no

while the human pilots in good for tanks or armoured cars, so a suggestion has been made ta

charge of the planes are re-

lieved of hours of fatiguing substitute the following:- work in the cockpit.

The robots can also be used to great advantage in long-distance mall-planes.

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"HUSH-HUSH", MECHANISM

Many details of the robots are still of a "hush-hush" character, but the governing principle of most of them is the wonderful balancing power possessed by n rapidly-revolving gyroscope.

The pilot of an acroplane which has been fitted with one of theso dovicos ascends in the usual way. Then, after setting, the machino on its course; ho switches on the gyroscopic machinery, which im- mediately takos antire control.

The vigilance of the auto- matic pilot is unceasing, and it nover makes e mistake. pa veckor Ju

Katherine Schlösler, a creole, who, at the instances of the French police, has been arrested av Bao Paulo, in If the machine tilts eldeways, South Amerion on-suspicion of being or tends to dive or swerve, the entangled in the murders of King mechanism automatically corrects. Akkander, and -Mi-Barthque/s

the movement.

"Come on with your spanners and mechanised manners, the garage is calling, the engines) are cold: So come with a jump and dive into the sump and bo drowned if you don't do the job you are told"

CURE FOR

COLD

New York, Mar. 10. The ability to keep alive in a test tube for 20 months the virus Identified as the cauEG of the common cold, has brought science closer to the development of an anti-cold vaccine, Dr. Raymond Dochez, professor of the Colum- bia School of Medicine, has “Just' announced.

The virus its been known for. Home time, but Dr, Dochez' - 'an- nouncement that it can be kept- living as a result of recent ex periments gave the first hope that ‘a vaccine to curo common colds might be developed soon.

The research also has disclosed" ho weld, that a

simila vinus is responsible for influenza.

United Press.

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